Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Nov. #10: Google Coupons and New AT&T 3G Plan


Google now makes it easier to search coupons from your cell phone. AT&T's new 3G plan can be purchased daily weekly or monthly opposed to its set monthly plan. They still have poor coverage though.

Nov. #9: You Tube Direct and Brock Lesnar


You Tube launched You Tube Direct to help users upload their own news footage on to the site. This allows amateur reporters to get their name out there because major news sources can request to use your footage. Brock Lesnar had to call of his heavy weight title fight because he caught mono earlier in the year. His illness lead to another discover of a greater illness he had contracted, a bad infection. He had surgery and is under way to recovering, before the surgery some said he would not ever be able to fight again.

Nov. #8: Modern Warefare 2 Records, Intel pays off AMD, Facebook,


Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 posts record sales, in one day it sold 4.7 million copies. Intel and AMD settled their conflicts. Intel payed AMD some money and AMD dropped their legal charges against Intel. Facebook was able to help a man get out of jail, the man had posted a ststus update from his home around the time he was suspected of robbing a bank...

Nov. #7: Forza Motorsport 3


Forza 3 is a new racing simulator game for the Xbox 360. It has over 400 cars and 100 tracks to choose from. Because of the games great accessibility and graphics it has gotten high reviews. I own a copy myself and I must say it's pretty awesome.

Monday, November 23, 2009

Nov. #6: Google Chrome OS, AOL cuts 2,500, and Automatic Captions for You Tube


Google Chrome OS was shown off at a press event. Its a nice free operating system which has a 7 second start up time. Most data is stored in the Google data base online so no need for a large hard drive. AOL called for 2,500 employees to give their jobs up for part of the reconstruction plan. Those who give up their jobs willingly well get a larger severance package hen those who are fired. You Tube now has automatic captions on every video and you can choose from 51 different languages.

Nov. #5: Google Smart Phone, DVD2BLU, IBM Super Computer


Google is releasing its own smart phone early next year, it may not be a phone at all though. It may be data only but everyone can still make calls. Home Warner is allowing you to send in you DVD to get a Blu Ray version of that movie in exchange for a small fee. IBM's Supercomputer models a cats entire brain, though it ran 80 times slower hen an actual cat brain. They hope by 2018 they have enough comuting power to simulate a human brain, learning from real worl enviorments and interacting with other beings.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Nov. #4: Russia Bands Modern Warfare 2, New Droid Phone, You Tube is in full HD, Obama Doesn't Tweet.


Russian banned the new best selling Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 because of a graphic level depicting innocent Russian civilians being massacred in an airport. The developer re releasing the game taking that level out. The new Verizon Droid phone sold 250,000 in its first week, this is the first Verizon smart phone that has a feature set comparable to the iPhone. You can now upload and view videos on to You Tube in full 1080 HD. Finally Barack Obama does not actually Tweet, so that's not really him giving you those updates. I guess thats good because he is too busy being the President.

Friday, November 13, 2009

Nov. #3: Assassins Creed 2


Assassins Creed 2 is a new video game for the Xbox 360. Playstation 3, and PC. One location of the game is in Venice, where you can swim, climb, jump, and interact with everything in the city. It is set come out November 17, 2009.

Friday, November 6, 2009

Nov. #2: T-mobile and The 7 Essential PC Apps


T-mobile had a blackout which wiped all information off of sidekick users and didn't let anyone make calls or texts. The cause of the problem is still unknown.
There are now 7 essential new PC apps which include the following: AVG anti virus free edition, Sea Monkey(includes Fire Fox and website editing), Pidgin ( for online communicating), Open Office ( free Microsoft Office), VLC Media Player, Paint, and Trend Micro Hijack this.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Nov. #1: Best Buy Movie Service, Twitter Peek, Fake Argleton UK


Best Buy has a new service where you can buy or rent movies on any device. Twitter has the new Twitter Peek, a device that does nothing but Twitter. Google Maps created a town named Argleton in the UK, and it doesn't really exist.